Bushel of IMPs

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Dealer: North
Vuln: E-W
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA 8 6 5
  2. heartA K 5 2
  3. diamondA K 5
  4. clubK 2
  1. spadeJ 9 7
  2. heart9 8
  3. diamondQ J 9 4
  4. clubJ 8 6 5
club diamond heart spade NT
N 2 2 1 6 4
S 2 2 1 6 4
E - - - - -
W - - - - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade2
  2. heartQ J 10 7 6 3
  3. diamond10 7 2
  4. clubA 10 9

Contract: 6spade
Declarer: South
Lead: heartQ
  1. spadeK Q 10 4 3
  2. heart4
  3. diamond8 6 3
  4. clubQ 7 4 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
2NT Pass 3heart*
Pass 4diamond Pass 4NT
Pass 5heart~ Pass 6spade
Pass Pass Pass

* transfer
~ three aces

At the table East returned a club enabling North to ruff in hand. After ace and king of spades and seeing the 3-1 split North had little option but to ruff the last club in the closed hand. The unfortunate West had to follow suit, and after a low heart ruffed in dummy declarer drew the last trump and claimed. It's maybe slightly better for declarer to play a trump to dummy after ruffing one club - no doubt someone can compute the odds.

Note that on a straightforward heart return at trick three North does not have the necessary entries to ruff both dummy's club losers. Of course declarer would have done much better to play clubK at trick two ..
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